GENERAL NOTES.
AFRICA.
—There is thought of founding at Natal an industrial and agricultural school for the natives.
—Efforts are being made for the erection of a machine for the manufacture of fire-water at Bailunda, West Central Africa. Christians! which shall the poor negro have first, strong drink or the gospel?
—The missionaries of the Livingstone Inland Mission have multiplied their stations along the lower Congo. Invited by several chiefs along the left bank of the river, they have founded one at Kimorie, another upon the same river and on the other side of the Loukoungou.
—Mr. C. Gregory has started to explore the regions east of Abyssinia. From Khartoum he went up upon the Abyssinian plateau, from whence he descended toward the territory inhabited by the Afars and traversed by the Gualima and the Melli rivers, flowing from the Haowasch.
—A society has been established at London under the title of the Congo and Central African Company, with a capital of 250,000 livres sterling, to traffic along the western side of Africa, especially upon the Congo, using the road constructed by Stanley.
—A letter from Cairo announces that Mr. Wissmann had arrived in that city the first of January. Between the lake Moucambe and Nyangoué, he passed through the territory of a tribe of dwarf negroes. From lake Tanganyika to Zanzibar, his journey was made without great difficulty, owing to the aid given by Mirambo.
THE CHINESE.
—The Methodist Episcopal Church has founded a university at Japan, through the liberality of Rev. Mr. Goucher, of Baltimore. The Theological Seminary has been removed from Yokohama to Tokio, and incorporated with it.
—The Presbyterian Board is about to open a new mission in China, in the province of Shautung. It will be located at Wei Hein, a city midway between Tsinan and Tungchon. There will be three laborers. There are now forty missionaries of all denominations in the province, among a population of 30,000,000.
—An Anti-Opium Prayer Union has been formed in Great Britain, of which the members residing in different parts covenant to pray at least once a week, on Thursdays, for the overthrow of the appalling and accursed opium trade in China and elsewhere.
—Of the Chinese students at Yale ordered home two years ago, Mum Yew Chung, who was coxswain of the crew of 1881, is in the office of the United States Consul-General at Shanghai; Wong is in partnership with Spencer Laisim, of the class of 1879, they having opened a translating agency; Chang, of the class of ’83, is at leisure, and desirous of returning to America; and Low, of the class of ’84, is married to a daughter of a merchant prince, and is likely to attain official honors. Tsoy Sin Kee is also married.
THE INDIANS.
—The rightful residents of the Indian Territory have forwarded to Washington a list of 2,400 names of intruders.
—Martin B. Lewis, a missionary of the Sunday-School Union, writes that on a recent Sunday at the Sisseton Reservation, half of the children at the Sunday-school came without shoes, their feet being sewed up in cloth; yet they were happy. A woman walked four and a half miles when the mercury was ten degrees below zero to make arrangements about organizing a school at her house. She had been five years in a family of eight without hearing a sermon or a prayer, and asserted that she could no longer live as a heathen.